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  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey

higher education about how they struggle with maintaining spirituality in the real world, and how they continue to persevere was eye-opening. There aren’t many times in our lives when we can have these... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Wandering Scholars: Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization

By: Josh Lerner, Henry Manley, Carolyn Stein and Heidi Williams
University-based scientific research has long been argued to be a central source of commercial innovation and economic growth. Yet at the same time, there have been long-held concerns that many university-based discoveries never realize their potential social... View Details
Keywords: Research; Higher Education; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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  • 19 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

shop” for employers and potential employees to find each other, even when labor markets are tight. But as hiring grows, tighter linkages between educational institutions and industry can yield better economic outcomes for workers and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
  • Web

Professional Development - Alumni

What You're Looking For? You do not need to have a specific career focus to work with a coach. Coaches are skilled in helping HBS alumni get clarity in their careers and life. Looking to grow on the job? Find Out How Find Out How Similar Resources Executive View Details
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

the SAS Support Services staff is available to speak with students about personal and academic concerns, as well as topic-specific concerns as described below. Suzy Conway, Director of MBA Student & Academic Services Suzy has a Ph.D. in View Details
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee training become a higher priority for companies and that corporate governance improves. Furthermore, we find that companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

across firms. Using information disclosed in proxy statements of publicly traded companies, I predict and find that firms connected through board interlocks or common compensation consultants display a higher degree of isomorphism in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

constraints to envision a new role for higher education as a developer of change-makers for the world, who could become part of a new stage of higher education. We wanted to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Research - Private Capital Project

understanding corporate defaults. In a given year, industries experiencing abnormally high VC or IPO activity subsequently see higher default rates, higher segment exits by conglomerates,... September 2022... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

Businesses seeking highly educated talent would do well to appeal to college graduates’ desire to “change the world.” And in doing so, they might change the world a little, too—by offering jobs that come with the unintended effect of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 20 Dec 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

Click HereHarvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomke describes how his Executive Education students use LEGO blocks to design customer experiences. (Video by Executive Education) Why do some product or service experiences have enough... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

experience, and the size of the company discussed in the case, we found that the presence of a teaching note improved case adoption by educators outside HBS. If cases with female protagonists are less likely to have an accompanying... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

upfront take-it-or-leave-it demands run higher rejection risks than more back and forth negotiations.] The frequent failures of DAD-style negotiation have led some project advocates to seek consensus among all stakeholders. In a city like... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
  • May–June 2024
  • Article

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Gender; Training; Recruitment; Personal Development and Career
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  • Web

Beth Clark | About

previous work in public policy and advocacy fortified her dedication to the pivotal role of higher education in society. Beth is an ardent advocate for cultivating diverse and innovative teams within... View Details
  • Web

Events - Business History

Administration at Harvard Business School, spoke about his new book, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (Harvard University Press, 2022). Empires of Ideas chronicles "two revolutions in View Details
  • October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

Divesting Harvard's Endowment

By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 04 Apr 2011
  • HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration. Increasing Geographic Knowledge Founded... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

revenues (including current use gifts and distribution from the endowment). In fiscal 2022, the School’s total revenues increased by $161 million, or 20 percent, to $966 million from $805 million in the prior year, primarily reflecting the growth in Executive View Details
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne